An all-encompassing bill to expand where guns could be legally carried in Georgia goes before a key House committee Monday.

The bill combines parts of more than a dozen gun measures introduced this session.

"The intent was to do a lot of cleanup language on people's Second Amendment rights to carry a weapon," says Rep. Allen Powell (R-Hartwell), chair of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.

He tells WSB's Sandra Parrish the bill would allow guns to be brought on college campuses by licensed carry permit holders except in dormitories or at athletic events.

It also allows them to bring firearms to church.

"If someone wants to pack their weapon to go to church, that's fine," he says.  "If the board of deacons, the preacher, or whoever administers that church... say 'we don't want guns in our sanctuary', then private property rights stand."

Powell says guns would also be allowed in airports before the security check point and allowances would be made for those who unknowingly pack them in their luggage.

"If they have no criminal intent and didn't have knowledge, there's no need to make a criminal out of them," he says.

 In January, former House Speaker Terry Coleman was arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport after a gun was found in his briefcase which he maintains he didn't know was there.

The bill also prohibits anyone who has been involuntarily admitted to a mental hospital within the past five years from getting a carry permit.